Combined reflector and cluster-frame.



PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

W. H. SPENCER. COMBINED REFLECTOR AND CLUSTER FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1905.

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PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

W. H. SPENCER. COMBINED REFLECTOR AND CLUSTER FRAME.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1905.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE- WILLIAM H. SPENCER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE FRINK SPENCER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED REFLECTOR AND CLUSTER-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4,1906.

Application filed May 2, 1905. Serial No. 258,464.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SPENCER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Reflector and Cluster-Frame; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and eX- act description" of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The invention has reference generally to improvements in reflectors and cluster frames or holders therefor; and the invention has for its principal object to provide the cluster frame or holder which is to be used with the reflector with an annular flange or guard adapted to be located directly over the various holding clips or clamps which are used to retain the usual glass or other panels or inner reflecting-sections of the reflector in position, thus hiding these unsightly clips or clamps from view and producing a combined reflector and cluster frame or holder which is very neat and sightly.

Other objects of this invention will be clearly obvious from the following detailed description of the invention.

This invention consists in the combined reflector and cluster holder or frame hereinafter set forth; and, furthermore, this inven tion consists in the novel arrangements and combinations of the parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be hereinafter more fully set forth and finally embodied in the claim which is appended to .this specification and forms an essential part of the same.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a top view, and Fig. 2 a bottom view, of a combined reflector and cluster frame or holder embodying the principles of this invention. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the reflector with the cluster holder or frame removed, and Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section taken on line 4 4 in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical section of the cluster holder or frame, said section being made on an enlarged scale; and Fig. 6 is a similar section of a cluster holder or frame of a slightly-modified form of con struction, but still embodying the features of this invention.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the said above-described views to indicate corresponding parts.

Reflectors provided upon their inner faces with glass or other suitable reflecting-sections held in place at their ends, respectively, by an overlapping bead at the outer marginal edge of the shell or body and by suitable clamping or holding tongues near the inner central portion. of the said shell or body have been heretofore used. A cluster frame or holder has also been attached or secured in the inner center of the reflector shell or body; but in these forms of combined reflector and cluster frame or holder such clamping or holding tongues were invariably exposed to view around the outer marginal edge of the cluster frame or holder at the points where said edges are located upon the inner face of the reflector. This produced an unsightly effect which was very objectionable, since thereby the beauty of the reflecting-surface and the ornamental cluster frame or holder was destroyed. In order to overcome this objectionable feature, I have produced the arrangement and combination of parts to be presently more fully set forth.

Referring now to the several figures of the drawings, the reference character 1 indicates the reflector-shade proper, the same comprising a metal shell or-body 2 which is provided with a marginal head 3 and with the usual central receiving portion 4, provided with a screw-threaded ring 5 for attachment of the reflector to a fixture or bracket in the usual manner. Within the said receiving portion ,4 is a ring 6, provided with marginal holdingtongues 7. number of radially-disposed reflecting-sections S of glass or any other suitable material are arranged upon the inner face of the said shell or body 2, the said sections being retained in position by having their respective ends arranged and secured beneath the said marginal bead 3 and beneath the said tongues 7, substantially as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. Suitably arranged within the said receiving portion 4 and surrounded by the said ring 6 is the usual lamp-socket 9, the same being held in place by means of screws 10. Arranged upon this lamp-socket 9 and held in place therein by means of the usual tubular fasteningdevices 11, into each of which, by the way, a lamp is screwed, is a metal shell 12, which is of a semispherical or other suitable shape and is provided with suitably-dis posed receiving-openings 13. That the said holding-tongues 7 may not be disposed to view when the said lamp-socket 9 and cluster frame or shell 12 are secured in position, the said frame or shell 12 is provided with an outwardly-extending annular flange, plate, or guard 14, preferably forming an integral part of the said frame or shell 12, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. This flange, plate, or guard 14, as will be seen from an ins ection of Fi s. 2 and 4 of the drawings, is coated direct y over the said holding tongues or clamps 7, and thus fully hides the same from view, thereby greatly enhancin the beauty of the combined reflector and c uster holder or frame and an unsightly and objectionable device is avoided. Instead of making the body of the said cluster frame or shell 12 at said annular flange, plate, or guard 4 in one piece a separate ring-shaped flange or guard 15, which is provided with an annular rib 16, may be used, the said flange or guard 15 and rib 16 bein slipped over the said cluster frame or she I 12, as indicated in Fig. 6 of the drawings, and held in place by friction between the parts or by means of the use of solder or other suitable fastening means.

The separablyconstructed ring-shaped flange or guard 15 and its rib 16 is especially adapted with the old styles of combined reflectors and cluster frames or holders already in position, and all that is necessary is to slip the said ring-shaped flange or guard 15 over the cluster frame or shell 12 and suitably secure it in place by means of the rib 16, as will be clearly understood.

I claim The herein-described combined reflector and cluster-frame, comprising a mainshell having a central receiving portion and a marginal bead, a series of radially-disposed reflector-sections arranged against the inner face of said shell, a ring in said receiving portion, holding-tongues on said ring, said reflector-sections being held at their outer ends by said marginal bead and at their inner ends by the said holding-tongues, a cluster-frame secured beneath said central receiving portion of said main shell, said cluster-frame comprising a hollow body formed with lamp-.

receiving openings, and having a large main opening adapted to be arranged opposite the said central receiving portion of said main shell, and an annular ring-shaped flange or guard extending outwardly from the upper marginal edge of said shell or body of the cluster-frame and over said holding-tongues so as to entirely hide the said tongues from view, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of April, 1905.

WILLIAM H. SPENCER.

Witnesses: I

FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL, Gno. D. RICHARDS. 

